It's all about options and leverage against our enemies. If America can finesse these agreements in conjunction with our already established capacity in Pakistan, we've the option now of expanding our forces to this new capacity-whatever that may be. Clearly, we've also built-in some slack.
Either are beneficial.
We're not going to leverage this against Pakistan. Nobody's invading with SOF or B-52s carpet-bombing FATA. Relationships in the CAR are always tenuous-with anybody. Us today, Russia tomorrow, China the day after.
Our best bet remains with Pakistan. It has it's own incentives now to keeping routes open to Afghanistan. Our defeat there would entail the likely defeat of Pakistan so there's little question that Pakistan is now part of this fight, like it or not.
War is not just a physical battle between two forces but there's an inherent ideological battle behind it, which even if you win the physical battle you may not necessarily win the ideological battle, in some cases you lose the ideological battle. and the ideological battle what you need to win a war. as was the case in vietnam and iraq. people's will can never be subdued through sheer brute terror alone. prestine examples are infront of you from modern history of kashmir, palestine, and nazi occupied territories. which neither you nor your ilk in washington comprehend properly.
your assertion that a defeat of u.s. in afghanistan would coincide with the defeat of pakistan is a very short-sighted and poorly thought out assertion, because first of all, any defeat of the u.s. in the region would be a major ideological win for the legitimate resistance fighers aka mujahideen (also a brownie point for the terrorists), secondly, it would be a victory for justice and Islam. and Islam is the idiological foundation of pakistan b/c it was created for muslims, so lets suppose if pakistan gets crippled, a victory of islam would nullify the defeat of pak, because afterall pakistan's ideological foundation is islam, thus any victory for islam is a victory for all muslims, including that of pakistanis.
I agree with you S-2. In my posts above I couldn't resist tweaking some of the Jihadi kiddies here at PDF. They can't take (or understand) a joke ....
They put out videos that say way mean things about us. We don't like it. It hurts our feelings. So we want to kill them. You are making them guests in your homes. Look out, incoming! TA! TA!
Awww...the kiddies hurt your feelings?
I didn't know you had feelings to begin with, kiddie.
so, let me question your logic, anyone that hurts your so called ''feelings'' gives you moral grounds to kill them?
also, going by your logic, the feelings are only for yourself, there are no feelings when other innocents are hurt...eh?
what a narcissistic freak!!
